Early Venice is an enchanting and breathtaking city in Italy. Othello is an African American man that stands out in a city full of white individuals in Venice. Othello falls in love with Desdemona‚ but when Iago does not receive a lieutenant title‚ he is furious and starts planting lies in Othello’s mind. Shakespeare illustrates the transformation of Othello‚ a noble general who turns into a jealous killer. Since this story revolves around the earlier times in history‚ interracial marriage was frowned
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Iago uses fake evidence against Desdemona in an attempt to prove she is cheating on her husband. Iago uses racism and past experiences to persuade Othello into believing he is not good enough for his wife as well as her not being good enough for him. Othello choses to believe Iago over his wife for the reason that she has only her word to back up her story while Iago has hard evidence. Iago plants fake evidence in the form of a handkerchief owned by Desdemona to lead Othello into believing his
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Othello’s blind acceptance of Iago’s web of lies is the result of his inability to think straight due to his jealousy of Desdemona along with Iago’s success in manipulating the general population. He was heartbroken and jealous of his wife’s supposed betrayal. This was supported by the fact that Iago had not just fooled Othello into believing his lies‚ all the characters within the play had believed in Iago’s lies. To strengthen the proposed theme further‚ it can be noted that Iago is a very manipulative
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Family (In Law) relationships will fail due to both parties acting evilly and irrationally because of jealousy. Jealousy can cause the destruction of a good father daughter relationship causing a father to betray his daughter. Desdemona and his daughter had a good relationship because Barbantio says‚ "I therefore vouch again/ That with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood‚/ Or with some dram‚ conjured this effect‚ He wrought upon her" (Act 1 scene 3‚ line 103-105). This shows that
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Inconsiderate‚ duplicitous‚ and mysterious are only a few words to describe the antagonists in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and William Shakespeare’s Othello. Both Mr. Harvey and Iago demonstrate key characteristics of a sociopath. The main attribute of a sociopath is that he or she can commit a heinous crime‚ such as murder‚ and not feel the slightest bit of remorse. This is precisely what these two villains did. Mr. Harvey‚ using his persuasion and charm‚ lured Susie into his subversive
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amount of trust‚ which when manipulated‚ ultimately leads to his downfall. Trust is an honourable trait but in excess can be detrimental. In Othello‚ Iago uses several techniques of manipulation to shift Othello’s absolute trust from his wife‚ Desdemona‚ to himself. The first of these techniques is convincing Othello that he cares much about him. The lie‚ “My lord you know I love you” is used to present a sense of loyalty and friendship which manipulates Othello into holding Iago in higher regards
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Barbantio’s emotions‚ particularly knowing that Barbantio holds a racist viewpoint. A predominant fear during that time period was colored men sexually corrupting the white women of the Venetian society‚ which would explain why Othello’s relationship with Desdemona is described in
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Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used his theatrical convention to evoke the inwardness of their characters‚ a soliloquy provides the audience with accurate access to the character’s innermost thoughts and we learn more about a character than could ever be gathered from the action of the play alone. In ’Othello’‚ both the hero and the villain speak in soliloquy. Iago‚ the villain‚ speaks his soliloquies first (Othello’s occur towards the end of the play)‚ drawing the audience in as he outlines
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This can be illustrated from the beginning through the character iago. Iago is evil and manipulative and uses animal imagery from the very starting of the play. Iago decides to inform Brabantio regarding his daughter‚ Desdemona‚leaving him and marrying the Moor‚ who is Othello. iago says to him‚ “…You’ll have your daughter covered with a barbary horse." Iago desires Othello to seem more evil‚ and needs Brabantio to take action against Othello. Iago’s immorality is seen
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with present him as having power and control in the play and as a result his desires become even more dangerous. His manipulative nature is emphasised by the number of “asides” Iago has throughout Othello such as when he is watching Othello and Desdemona together and says “O you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music‚ as honest as I am.” This is an example of the dramatic irony that is used throughout by Iago‚ as the audience knows of his plans to ruin Othello and Desdemona’s
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